Shayna Baszler addresses potential WWE coaching role
A full-time coaching role could be in the cards for Shayna Baszler down the line, but her focus right now remains on competing in the ring.
Following her release from WWE in May, Baszler picked up some experience working behind the scenes in NXT while waiting for her 90-day clause to run out. Dave Meltzer later reported that WWE is interested in hiring Baszler as a producer or coach. Nothing is in place for that at the moment, though, and Baszler continues to wrestle on the indies in her post-WWE career.
Baszler recently spoke with Catch Club and was asked if working behind the scenes in WWE is something she’d like to do in the future.
“Yeah, I mean, it’s something that’s very fulfilling to me, coaching, helping people learn about wrestling. So I think I have a lot to give in the ring still, so I want to concentrate on that and get that out of my system,” she responded.
“But I think obviously the natural progression would be to coach. You know, I always say, people sometimes go to school, they go to college, university for 10 years to become a doctor or a professor or something like that. I spent all my time learning combat arts, so my university was in the martial arts gym, learning how to submit people. So I think the natural progression, that’s where my level of expertise is. So it just makes sense to pass that on. I had really good coaches, as you mentioned, that did that for me, so I think I’d like to pass that on too.”
Catch Club’s interview with Baszler was conducted earlier this month while she was overseas to compete at an indie show in France. This past weekend, the 45-year-old Baszler made her House of Glory debut in New York with a victory over Maki Itoh.
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